the Thiepval Museum

A must visit

We were here to pay respects to a family ancestor whose names is one of the 73,000 etched into the nearby Thiepval Memorial, rather than visit the museum. Although we did not go into the paid exhibiti...

A must visit

We were here to pay respects to a family ancestor whose names is one of the 73,000 etched into the nearby Thiepval Memorial, rather than visit the museum. Although we did not go into the paid exhibiti...

Magnificent Memorial

This is a magnificent memorial to those lost at WW1 battles of the Somme. 72000 names of those lost during the conflict who have know known grave. The scale of the memorial mirrors the scale of loss....

Magnificent Memorial

This is a magnificent memorial to those lost at WW1 battles of the Somme. 72000 names of those lost during the conflict who have know known grave. The scale of the memorial mirrors the scale of loss....

Portraying something like the Somme isn't easy but this Museum does it brilliantly

When we planned our ittinary to Northern France and the Somme Battlefields we didnt know there was a museum at the Thipval memorial, and a visit to this museum was incidental to the memorial. That sa...